GCRF_NF106 Entrepreneurial resilience & recovery during and after covid-19 crisis: firm- & community-level responses in Wuhan, Malaysia, and Thailand

Moscarini和Postel-Viney（《美国经济评论》，2012年）表明，企业家在经济危机期间对经济恢复力至关重要，在危机减弱时对启动复苏至关重要。然而，我们对如何在新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19，即2019冠状病毒病）式的经济紧急情况下最好地利用这种潜力知之甚少，这种情况不仅会导致需求急剧冲击，而且还要求企业从根本上重新配置其业务，以遵守社交距离。这种知识差距在低收入和中等收入经济体中尤为严重，因为大多数关于企业家复原力的研究都是在高收入国家进行的。在危机期间利用企业家促进经济复原力和复苏时，政府必须阻止“竞相逐底”的反应，并鼓励“社区齐心协力”的反应。第一种是“狗咬狗”的竞争，以确保尽可能多的减少资源为自己尽可能。在第二种情况下，社区团结起来，缓冲其成员对冲击。我们目前对如何促进可持续的应对措施和阻止不可持续的应对措施知之甚少，我们正在填补上述知识空白。与武汉大学，联合国亚洲经济社会委员会（曼谷），亚洲商学院（吉隆坡）和亚洲开发银行（马尼拉）合作，我们研究创业公司和社区层面的应对措施和商业模式实践，以适应新冠肺炎危机和强劲的危机后复苏。我们将进行20-25个纵向案例研究，引入企业和社区层面的创业韧性和恢复过程模型，为亚洲中低收入经济体的政策和创业实践提供信息。

Moscarini and Postel-Viney (American Economic Review, 2012) showed that entrepreneurs are central for economic resilience during an economic crisis and for kickstarting recovery as the crisis attenuates. However, we know little about how this potential can be best harnessed during a covid-19 -style economic emergency, which not only causes a sharp demand shock, but also, requires businesses to radically reconfigure their operations to comply with social distancing. This knowledge gap is particularly acute for low- and middle-income economies, as most studies of entrepreneurial resilience have been conducted in high-income countries.In harnessing entrepreneurs for economic resilience and recovery during a crisis, governments have to deter a 'race to the bottom' response and encourage a 'community pulling together' response. The first is a 'dog-eat-dog' race to secure as many of the dwindling resources for oneself as possible. In the second, the community pulls together to buffer its members against the shock. We currently know little about how to promote sustainable responses and discourage unsustainable ones.We address the above knowledge gaps. Collaborating with Wuhan University, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia (Bangkok), Asia School of Business (Kuala Lumpur) and Asian Development Bank (Manila) we study entrepreneurial firm- and community-level responses and business model practices for resilient adjustment to covid- 19 crisis and for robust post-crisis recovery. We will conduct 20-25 longitudinal case studies to induct firm- and community -level process models of entrepreneurial resilience and recovery to inform policy and entrepreneurial practice in lower and upper middle income economies in Asia.